Chapter 40 Locale Values (Reference)

The tables below list the values that are needed to set the locale keyword in a profile or to preconfigure a locale.

A locale determines how online information is displayed in a specific language and region. A language might also include more than one locale to accommodate regional differences, such as differences in the format of date and time, numeric and monetary conventions, and spelling. For additional information about locales, see the International Language Environments Guide.

Table 40–1 Asia

Locale

User Interface

Territory

Codeset

Language Support

hi_IN.UTF-8

English

India

UTF-8 [UTF-8 is the UTF-8 defined in ISO/IEC 10646–1:2000 and also Unicode 3.1.]

Hindi (UTF-8) Unicode 3.1

ja

Japanese

Japan

eucJP [eucJP signifies the Japanese EUC codeset. Specification of ja_JP.eucJP locale conforms to UI_OSF Japanese Environment Implementation Agreement Version 1.1 and ja locale conforms to the traditional specification from the past Solaris releases. ]

GBK [GBK signifies GB extensions. This includes all GB 2312–80 characters and all Unified Han characters of ISO/IEC 10646–1, as well as Japanese Hiragana and Katakana characters. It also includes many characters of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean character sets and of ISO/IEC 10646–1.]